I think it's because the language Shakespeare used was old English. Modern English is very different to the way it was spoken in Shakespeare's time.
The Zhou government was weak central. Its power extended by almost all China, but the great extension of the zone and the rudimentary communications they made impossible the direct control of the Zhou, for this they delegated vasallos that gorbernadan each a city and its surroundings, little by little they acquired power until many they rebelled and with foreign aid expelled the Zhou from their capital. They went out and settled in the east but they did not have the same authority and many vassal states were stronger than them.
The Sugar Act, also known as the American Revenue Act, was a revenue-raising act passed by the British Parliament of Great Britain in April of 1764. The earlier Molasses Act of 1733, which had imposed a tax of six pence per gallon of molasses, had never been effectively collected due to colonial resistance and evasion.
